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i love when the character starts doing something feeling fine and the symptoms hit them halfway through. like yeah they started the mission feeling okay, but within a few hours they're shivering and have a pounding headache. They came to work okay but a migraine hit right after lunch. like yes the idea of pushing through illness is good, but i love a good "I was fine this morning"

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lately i’ve been so into the thought of someone in a relatively high-powered, stressful job (court advisor, for my particular fantasy nerdiness) who’s also rather frail/sickly. they don’t downplay their fragile health, or hide the colds they catch — quite the opposite. they do everything they can to look after themself, except stop working. carrying extra handkerchiefs, attending meetings with a cup of herbal tea, answering correspondence in bed, they’ll do all that, but they won’t ever put down their work.

#Okay this is so choice

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for me, nothing hits quite like someone who's sick but like...still in a good mood? like either ignoring it or admitting they're not well but still pleasant to be around. like they sneeze and someone asks if they're ok and they just roll their eyes and say "yeah i just have a stupid fuckin cold" 🫠😳👁️👄👁️🤩

#This is a cute idea

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Sometimes you just gotta play jester with your brain to make the best of a bad situation

#Me every time I'm sick #Had a drink recently that disagreed with me and was throwing up the next morning impassively like “Well. Very sickfic situation here.” #Lifehack: just be into misery tropes

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a quick-witted, animated type with an absolute firecracker of a brain... and a baffling post-sneeze recovery time of about 0.5 seconds to match

one second, they're passionately making a point, gesticulating wildly. the next, they sneeze with their whole body with very little warning, as if just forcing it out as quickly and efficiently as possible

...and then, they pick their sentence right back up, still chatting away as always, at a mile a minute but with crisp clarity, as if nothing ever happened. and everyone else is just reeling on their behalf

(a select few get to see the scattered side of them that relaxes enough to sneeze, pause, stare into the distance, then ask, "what was i saying?")

#This is a fun idea #Interested in this vibe

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Nothing better than a good old

Caretaker (coming into Whumpee's room to find them curled up buried in thirteen blankets after having a fever all night): Hey you. Are you alive?

Whumpee: ...no

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When Character A gets sick and is totally down with it for a few days and as soon as they start feeling better they panic about all that lost time

As soon as they have any energy back they throw themselves into things they had to put on hold- training harder, cleaning, projects they had started. And it gets to the point they arent sleeping more than a few hours and they’re still dealing with lingering coughs or loss of apetite and arent at 100% yet

Character B had been noticing and it gets to a point for B that they are worried about A relapsing or getting more sick or collapsing. So they eventually just walk over and grab ahold of A’s wrist/shoulder and steer them to sit down.

A has reason after reason to keep doing what theyre doing, and they are fine now see! Not sick anymore! But B isn’t having it and tries to make A see and understand their worry.

It eventually devolves to B sitting with A on the couch or forcing A to lay in bed and staying there with them coaxing them to sleep. “No just stay still. 5 minutes. Close your eyes. Please.>”

Eventually through talking softly and rubbing a hand up and down A’s back or playing with A’s hair, B finally gets them to sleep. And they finally sleep for more than 3 or 4 hours.

Then A wakes up groggy, with a pounding headache, and feverish all over again.

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Partner of whumpee coming over to whumpee's place and their sibling/roommate etc lets them know that whumpee is 'sick in bed'... that phrase LIVES IN MY HEAD

especially when it's used so literally- when the partner walks into whumpee's room, they're passed out beneath the thickest duvet they have, shivering intermittently and just looking AWFUL

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cold dialogue starters

dialogue for your cold-ridden whumpee:

"I’ve got chills all over."

“I think the cold got in my bones."

"I’m never gonna be warm again."

"Will you hold me? Please? I’m freezing.”

"I can't stop shivering."

"I just can’t get warm enough."

"I’m fine, really - just chilled and achy.”

"Can you get me another blanket?"

"Is it cold in here or is it just me?"

"Just...just lay next to me. You're warm and I'm cold."

“I think I’m coming down with something. I’ve felt shivery all morning.”

“Can I just…sit next to the fire a little longer? Please? I’m frozen.”

“I’ll feel better once I can wrap up.”

aaaand dialogue for your caretaker;

“Love, I think you’ve got the chills.”

“Still shivering?”

“Oh honey, you look frozen through.”

“C’mere. Of course I’ll warm you up.”

“Are you warm enough.”

“Poor thing—you must be chilled to the bone.”

“You’ve been shivering since we got home - are you feeling okay?”

“Let’s get you a blanket.”

“You’ve got to stay wrapped up, sweetheart, or you’ll get chilled.”

“C’mon, you, get under the covers. We’ll get you warm.”

“I see you shivering.”

“Get closer to the fire, love. There you go, that's better.”

please feel free to add more!!!

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I love mumbly whumpees. Pls give me feverish whumpees incoherently spewing off nonsense word salad style

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Ppl have made 1,000 posts about this and by god I hope they make 1,000 more but im REALLY feeling "falling asleep in weird places" as a sickness tell

ESPECIALLY if the character is the strict, no-nonsense type or in charge of the character who ends up playing caretaker. Like, it's SO out-of-character for them to fall asleep in (semi-)public that it's HUGE red flag when they do. Something is wrong, even if the other characters don't know exactly what yet

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Good things: sickfics where everyone has different remedies for an illness (insomnia, sore throat, stomach bug, head cold, etc) and the sick character must be subjected to all kinds of benevolent torture as each member of the group turns rehabilitating them from a nurturing experience into the fucking Space Race

#Oh this is funny this is good

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cold dialogue starters

dialogue for your cold-ridden whumpee:

"I’ve got chills all over."

“I think the cold got in my bones."

"I’m never gonna be warm again."

"Will you hold me? Please? I’m freezing.”

"I can't stop shivering."

"I just can’t get warm enough."

"I’m fine, really - just chilled and achy.”

"Can you get me another blanket?"

"Is it cold in here or is it just me?"

"Just...just lay next to me. You're warm and I'm cold."

“I think I’m coming down with something. I’ve felt shivery all morning.”

“Can I just…sit next to the fire a little longer? Please? I’m frozen.”

“I’ll feel better once I can wrap up.”

aaaand dialogue for your caretaker;

“Love, I think you’ve got the chills.”

“Still shivering?”

“Oh honey, you look frozen through.”

“C’mere. Of course I’ll warm you up.”

“Are you warm enough.”

“Poor thing—you must be chilled to the bone.”

“You’ve been shivering since we got home - are you feeling okay?”

“Let’s get you a blanket.”

“You’ve got to stay wrapped up, sweetheart, or you’ll get chilled.”

“C’mon, you, get under the covers. We’ll get you warm.”

“I see you shivering.”

“Get closer to the fire, love. There you go, that's better.”

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Writing Prompt 298

“What’s wrong with you?” X asked when they found Y curled up in bed, looking pale.

“Apparently,” they pulled a face, “I don’t only get seasick, carsick and airsick, but I also get space sick.”  X gave a snort of laughter and Y gave them a dirty look.

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Let's give it up for feverish brainfog. Especially for a character who's normally put together and well spoken, but now they're...not full on delirious for sure, but like. Mildly out of it to the point that it's irritating.

Like

Whumpee: what's that thing. the thing.

Caretaker: ....which thing?

Whumpee: you know, the thing

Caretaker:

Whumpee: the bread thing.

Whumpee: bread warming thing

Caretaker:...a toaster?

Whumpee: *defeated sigh* yeah that one

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[LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER NOISE]

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The star emoji adds a little dizziness effect, just so you all know 👀

So the official Emoji Kitchen is out on Google, and I decided to tickle my whump/sickfic brain with it a lil...

(Try it yourself by searching Emoji Kitchen!)